Brett Garsed was born in rural Victoria, Australia and began playing guitar at age 12 after hearing Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore play "Speed King". After about a month of initial lessons he continued to teach himself and formed a band comprised of his two cousins and a mutual friend and began playing live.
His main influences were Blackmore, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour and Jimi Hendrix. This later expanded to more diverse styles such as Leo Kottke, Rory Gallagher (his main inspiration for slide guitar) and Edward Van Halen. After playing for about 5 years, Brett decided to take classical guitar lessons for about a year which encouraged him to expand his right-hand finger picking technique, which was already beginning to develop.

In July of 1985 Brett sent out some demo tapes, one of which was heard by Ross Fraser of the Wheatley Organization, which led to an audition for a short tour with John Farnham. Brett continued to tour and record with John until early 1989 when he was invited to the US to audition for Nelson, which was successful and toured with them for most of 1991. In 1994 Brett filmed an instructional video for REH/Warner titled Rock Fusion which covers, in detail, his unique approach to guitar improvisation.

Along with guitarist TJ Helmerich he recorded Quid Pro Quo. Bretts debut solo album Big Sky was released in 2002 through Paranormal Records followed by Dark Matter in 2011.
An instructional DVD, Rock Guitar Improvisation was released in 2004
In 2007, Garsed toured with Paul Stanley on his Live to Win tour.

Brett is now living in Australia again after 14 years in Los Angeles.

Albums: Whispering Jack, Age Of Reason, Chain Reaction, Full House, Romeo's Heart,
John Farnham & Tom Jones Together In Concert, Two Strong Hearts